There is a new kind of seeker today " “ not a seeker of truth, but a seeker of power. Churches are encouraged to be "seeker-sensitive" to those who are looking for something supernatural and there is a plethora of false teachers who are quite willing to give them what their itching ears want to hear and what their scaly eyes want to see.

Back in 1985, a book came out that examined so-called communications coming from UFOs called "In Advance of the Landing." The authors showed how the space brothers seemed to be getting the earth prepared to be open to receive them and were waiting until the moment was right before making their grand entrance to the world. As ludicrous as that sounds, there"s a parallel with the strategy of the spirit of antichrist who cannot make his debut until the timing is right, when the world has been fully prepped to accept him.

Christianity Today calls itself, "a magazine of evangelical conviction." The problem is, however, that by the look of the church leaders they highlight, the advertisers they accept, and the positions they take editorially, they are not plugged into the convicting power of the Holy Spirit. If they were, they wouldn"t put money and influence above truth and holiness.

In fact, it would be easy for any Spirit-filled Bible believer to discern that CT is one of the leading publications spreading apostasy and disloyalty to the One Whose name they choose to market and drag through the mud.

Bible Prophecy -- Subject to Change

In the early days of TBN, the idea of an immanent Rapture set the tone of TBN eschatology (the study of last things). In fact, Paul and Jan Crouch would get excited any time world events signaled a warning that trouble was escalating in the Holy Land. They would bring on their regular end-times experts. Besides Hal Lindsey, there was Doug Clark, Charles Taylor, Dr. Steuart McBirnie, Chuck Smith and a host of other experts who would analyze current events to see where we were on the Armageddon clock. It was always about one minute to midnight, according to their estimates.

Today I was watching Joyce Meyer's program and listened in disbelief to her story of how she overcame greed. She said that she had wanted a fur coat years ago and was praying and believing for one. Then her best friend came over and showed her a fur coat that she had just been given. It was the exact fur coat that Joyce wanted but it was given to her friend, not her. She related how she later complained to the Lord saying "Why Lord? That coat should have been mine! That was the coat I wanted!" And God told her that He gave it to her friend to teach her not to set her mind upon the things of this world.

The reason I was so dumbfounded over this story is that I heard this exact "true story" told years ago by Marilyn Hickey. And I mean it was exactly the same even to the words God supposedly spoke to her. Marilyn too had a best friend receive her ideal fur coat instead of her and God gave her the same lesson.

There"s been a long-running debate in the evangelical church over what policy should be followed in deciding whether or not to buy air-time on the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) or any other "Christian" network that promotes the "Prosperity Gospel," which is not the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Should teachers who promote the true Gospel grace the set of the "Praise the Lord" program or any other show hosted by false teachers?

The last days' Church of Laodicea is marked as one full of greed and avarice. The church that Jesus is going to spew out of His mouth is rich in this world's goods. Jesus tells this church: " . . you say, 'I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing'-- and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked -- " (Rev. 3:17).

It's only been very recently that the accumulation of wealth has been interpreted as God's blessing on His people. One of the first preachers to popularize this notion in the 1960s was the Reverend Ike. :"(In the "letters to the editor" section of the January, 1999, issue of Charisma Magazine, Reverend Ike wrote in complaining of being villainized in an article written about a false prophet, Bernard Jordan. "My 'incessant financial appeals' are probably mid-range compared to the incessant financial appeals of every other church, minister, TV evangelists and those advertising products and events in Charisma.")": When he first burst on the scene he was immediately recognized as a religious phony. No Bible believing Christian took him seriously.

An invisible prankster is apparently playing tricks on the flamboyant Trinity Broadcasting Network co-founder Jan Crouch. It calls out her name while she's working alone in her office and then doesn't respond when she answers its summons.Ã‚